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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Edmund Burke

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity

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